Cyber exposure company Tenable Holdings, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Alsid, a provider of secure Active Directory solution.
Under the terms of the agreement, Tenable acquired Alsid for a total purchase price of approximately US$98 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
The acquisition was completed on April 26, 2021 and combines the complementary strengths of two cybersecurity innovators and marks an important milestone in Tenable’s vision to help organisations understand and reduce cyber risk across the entire attack surface. Tenable also announced the availability of Tenable.ad, a new solution leveraging Alsid technology to secure Active Directory environments and disrupt one of the most common attack paths in both advanced persistent threats and common hacks.
“Active Directory is commonly targeted in attacks and is often the first thing bad actors go after when they gain access. Understanding your Active Directory security posture is a strategic and important complement to vulnerability management and is imperative to managing risk, especially in complex cloud and hybrid environments,” said Amit Yoran,…
